House of Oz.......

A side-duel for HLBOE term 4 ... we needed to create a book-scarf. We could use the usual HP House colors, or create our own. Since I have another mini swap coming up & needed some more items, I chose to create my own 'House', the House of Oz.

Colors? Easy! Yellow (brick road) with emerald (city) accent. :)

Men's Irish Hiking Socks

Another Meagheen Ryan pattern.

Term 4 Muggle Studies

Had to find a local fantastic creature & capture it on film ......

Beauty & the Beast sock

Rich brown for the Beast's fur.
Sunshine yellow for Belle's gown.
And all *mine*!

Minerva :)

My latest 'magical creature' :)

Luck o' the Irish

Another Meagheen Ryan design - Men's Irish Hiking Socks.

Mini sock :)

Okay .... I couldn't resist making *something* right away with the yarns I dyed .... this is it. :)

Bug Swap, July 2010

The July 2010 Wee Tiny Sock Swap was themed for bugs. My first choice was the Luna Moth, the largest of the moths and a soft green all over. My partner made this sock to represent the moth.

Yarn dye experiment #2

Decided to play with my new Wilton paste food colors today, so I skeined up some mini-skeins of fingering weight wool.

Such fun! First three pictures show set up. One skein was already dyed in strawberry kool-aid. I re-dyed parts of it with burgundy. The rest of the yarn was undyed.

I did one in green, well, I thought I did one. Found out I did two, so I got to play with the second one, adding a second color to it by putting just part of the skein into the dye bath & nuking for 2 minutes.

Did one in solid golden yellow, to go with the solid green for an upcoming Oz swap.

Then I made a mistake .... I asked my husband to help me pick out combinations. He has a good eye for color. The mistake? I didn't tell him I only wanted *2* colors per combination. He, of course, promptly picked out *3*. ::sigh::

So .... I have a skein with teal, kelly green & royal blue. I have a skein with kelly green, leaf green and teal. And I have a skein with orange, golden yellow and lemon yellow. Whew!

But then ...... I took a deep breath & the skein I had dyed in green & yellow ..... and I dipped just the end of the yellow into the orange & nuked it. Then I dipped just the end of the green into a deeper green & nuked it. Now I have a skein with variegated greens & yellow/orange!

Asian Dragon

Potions HLBOE Term 4

Severed Finger

It's a joke, Peeves ....... just a joke .........

More Minis.........

Two more mini sock patterns from Meagheen Ryan - Let It Snow and Prof. Snape

Still more recent knitting .......

The burgundy & gold mini Christmas stocking is from patterns by Terry Morris - you can find them on Ravelry.com under mix-it-up Christmas stockings. There are three different sets of patterns for knitted stockings, one for textured stockings, some of which I used here, one for stranded color work and one for intarsia color work. You can also find patterns for a crocheted version. Patterns are available only to members of holidaymysterygifts on Yahoo.com.

The small variegated red mini sock is the July 2010 kit for the Wee Tiny Sock Club, a group on Ravelry.com.

More recent knitting

Test knit for Meagheen Ryan. Mrs. Pot, Chip & Luminere from Beauty & the Beast

Christmas in July Stocking craft-a-long

One of my yahoo groups, holidaymysterygifts, has started a Mix It Up Christmas-in-July craft-along. There are patterns for crochet and knitting - for intarsia, for stranded colorwork, for textured stockings of one color.

I'm going to be making more than one - I can't possibly get all those patterns on just one stocking!

This one is just two colors - deep forest green & cream.